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Extension name: Password StrengthAuthor:VSEExtension description: This extension will show users how strong (or weak) their password is as they type it into the password field when creating or updating their account.

Complexity:
A simple test to check for complexity in a password by looking for a mix of characters, case, symbols, numbers and length. This is useful for encouraging hard to remember complex passwords.

zxcvbn algorithm :
As used by DropBox, an algorithm that calculates the guess-ability of a password by comparing it to a large dictionary of common English words as well as looking for recognizable word patterns. This is a more robust strength checker that allows for user-friendly passwords that are easy to remember but still hard to guess. A Very Strong result represents a password that could take a computer years to centuries to guess.

Features:

Password field changes colors from red (weak) to green (strong) as the user types in a password.

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